Removable tank for refrigerators



(No Model.)

.0. P. GLID-DEN. REMOVABLB TANK PUR EEPRIGERATORS. No. 437,299. Patented Sept. 30, 1890.

ATTORNEYS AUNITED STATES :PATENT OFFICE.

OSCAR F. GLIDDEN, CF` GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

REMOVABLE TANK FORV REFRIGERATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,299, dated September 30, 1890. Application filed December 2l, 1889. Serial No. 334,587. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, OsoAR F. GLIDDEN, acitizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useA ful Improvements in Removable Tanks for Refrigerators; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a removable tank for refrigerators; and it consists in providing a refrigerator with a tank of peculiar form adapted to be inserted in and easily removed, and having means of closing all external openings and preventing the passage of air into the refrigeratorchamber through the opening in the walls provided for the faucet of the tank; and the improvement consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the various parts and details hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims, referenceV being had to the accompanying drawings, whereinn Figure l is a perspective of a corner of an ordinaryT refrigerator, with parts in dotted outline, showing my tank in place; Fig.'2, vertical section of same, and Fig. 3 perspective of tank removed from its seat.

Like letters indicate like parts in each of the several figures.

A represents a rectangular tank provided withafaucet G and having secured to its front face a block C, having a face E, which is flush with the back of the chamber O', arranged in the vertical Walls of the refrigerator O and having the front opening C", which may be provided with an ornamental casing surrounding the same, if desired. The bot; tom of the chamber is provided with a pan P, having an opening communicating .with a drip-pipe K, which communicates with the drip-pipe K' of the refrigerator, and which communicates with the chamber J, containing the tank.

The block C has shoulders F and D yfor engaging the sides of the opening in the vertical walls of the refrigerator to form a tight joint, as shown in Fig. 2, and the face D may be provided with a packing D', inserted between the shoulder and the inside of said walls to make the joint air-tight, if desired.

The tank rests upon suitable supportingbars L L', arranged across the bottom of the tank chamber, L having a groove M, in which sets the rear edge of the tank A, to form a irm seat and prevent the tank from moving backward from the opening. This is also further guarded against bythe cleat N, secured across the back of the chamber and engaging the back of the tank. I I are hana dles. It is obvious that a rectangular tank having a block C for engaging the sides of the opening and a spout projecting from the tank outward through such opening could not be removed from the chamber J without re moving the spout. To provide for such removal, I make the rear side of the tank fiaring from the bottom upward toward the top, so that the distance across the bottom is considerably less than that across the top, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and indicated by B. I arrange the cleat N at such distance from the bottom as that when the tank being lifted upward is disengaged from its seat M the cleat N and the end of the tank will be out'of conn tact and the tank may then be drawn obliquely upward .and .lifted out of the chamber.

Having thus described lny invention, what I claim and desire patented is 1. In combination with a refrigerator, a red movable tankhavinga faucet arranged to communicate with the exterior of the refrigerator and having the distance across its top greater than that across its bottom, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a refrigerator having a chamber, as J, provided with bars, as Li L', and a cleat, as N, and a removable tank having a iiaring rear end, as B, substantially Yas and for the purpose set forth.

3. In combination with a refrigeratorliaving a chamber, as J, provided with an opening through its vertical walls adapted to admit a faucet, and a removable tank having a faucet and provided with shoulders adjacent to the faucet adapted to engage the sides of said opening and form a substantially airtight joint, substantially as described.

4. In combination with a refrigerator having a chamber, as J, provided with tank-supporting bars, asL L', and an opening through its vertical walls, a removable tank, as A,

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having' a beveled or flaring corner, as B, and a faucet, as G, and provided with a bleek, as C, for engaging the sides 0f the opening and forming a tight joint, substantially as set forth.

5. In Combination with a refrigerator havingr a chamber, as J, provided with tank-supporting bar L and bar L', havingr the `groove M and a Cleat N and an opening through its vertical Walls arranged substantially as described, a removable tank, as A, having a beveled or Haring rear lower cerner, as B,

adapted to engage the groove M and provided With a bleek C, having faces E and shoulders F and D for engaging the sides of said open- 15 ing, as set forth, and afaueet G, arranged substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR F. GLIDDEN. Witnesses:

DENNIS L. ROGERS, LUTHER V. MoUL'roN. 

